His late father, Barack Obama, was a finance minister in Kenya and his mother, Ann Dunham, is an American anthropologist now doing fieldwork in Indonesia.

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According to David Stoll, an American anthropologist at Middlebury College in Vermont, part of their success lies in their firm line against alcohol, which is redeeming many people from the ravages of the bottle.

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Twenty years ago, Paul Farmer, an American doctor and anthropologist, set out to do something about this.

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Renowned American choreographer and anthropologist Katherine Dunham later bought the property, and in the 1970s, built a chic ecological resort among the mahogany and breadfruit trees.

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He appointed as his deputy Paul Farmer, an American doctor and anthropologist who worked in Haiti for many years and is a radical critic of its social inequalities.

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The earliest accounts of sweat lodges in Native American culture appear in writings by European settlers from the 1600s, and according to anthropologist Raymond A Bucko, author of The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge, sweat lodges have not changed significantly since that time.

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